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Re: How to handle Heading under Section

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From: Alexander Karelas
Date: Apr 30, 2018 3:41PM

A bug has already been filed for this, by the way...
https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/7823 and has been replied to,
more or less.


On 29/04/2018 09:18 πμ, Alexander Karelas wrote:
> My page has 4 sections.
>
> Each of the 4 sections contains a big heading.
>
> My question is:
>
> Should I label the 4 sections? If so, I would ideally like to label them
> with the 4 headings (with aria-labelledby, maybe).
>
> But when I do that, NVDA reads the heading twice when I press 'h' to
> browse the headings. It reads it once because I entered the section, and
> it reads it once more because it's reading the heading itself.
>
> Is that considered annoying? I mean, when the user presses 'h' 4 times
> to browse the 4 headings, they will hear each heading twice after each
> keypress.
>
> How do you think I should handle this?
>
> Thank you,
>
>